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#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;Cairo Diaryis a riveting historical narrative filled with ancient texts, romance and political intrigue. #xA0; Best-selling author, Dr. Linda Lambert, recounts the journeys of two women separated by two millennia who are each seeking personal freedom: #xA0; the Virgin Mary, living with her family in Old Cairo; and Dr. Justine Jenner, a modern-day anthropologist, whose mother is Egyptian and whose father is American. #xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0; Mary is a reflective, insightful woman who imparts her wisdom to her eight-year old son, Jesus, and chronicles the historic challenges Jews faced in a Roman-Egyptian world. #xA0; Two thousand years later, Justine arrives in Cairo to take up the work of UNICEF Community Schools for Girls. #xA0; During a violent earthquake, she becomes trapped in the crypt under St. Sergius Church in Old Cairo, originally the cave that served as the Egyptian home to the Holy Family. #xA0; When the shaking stops, an ancient book lies at her feet. #xA0; #xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0; With the help of a team of Egyptian and French investigators, Justine explores the profound secrets of the codex, which turns out to be the personal diary of the Virgin Mary. #xA0; What is recorded in this diary threatens the foundation of religious beliefs, beliefs that are revealed to be a finely textured mythology.#xA0; #xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0; Dr. Linda Lambert became enthralled with Egypt as a young girl, when her mother enchanted her with tales of her own alleged reincarnation from Egyptian royalty. #xA0; In 1989, Linda moved to Egypt and began two decades of passionate exploration of this fascinating culture. #xA0; During a visit to the ancient crypt that is believed to have housed the Holy Family, Linda experienced an epiphany that inspired her to writeCairo Diaryher first historical novel.#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0; Linda has written several internationally-recognized books in the field of educational leadership. #xA0;#xA0; Her seventh book,Women's Ways of Leadingwas released in 2009, integrating her global work in leadership with feminine and historical themes that take center stage in her novels as well.#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0; Dr. Lambert is an experienced administrator, history instructor and international consultant. #xA0; She is now Professor Emeritus at California State University, East Bay, and lives full time on The Sea Ranch, California, with her husband, Morgan Lambert.#xA0;#xA0;
Excerpts
Cairo DiaryChapter 1Delhi is a great place---most bazaar storytellers in India make their villain hail from there; but when the agony and intrigue are piled highest and the tale halts till the very last breathless sprinkle of cowries has ceased to fall on his mat, why then, with wagging head and hooked forefinger, the storyteller goes on: "But there was a man from Cairo, an Egyptian of the Egyptians, who"---and all the crowd knows that a bit of real metropolitan devilry is coming.-Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Travel, 1908 April 12, 2006 Justine couldn't wait. Nadia had offered to show her around Cairo, but Justine was too eager to set foot in the crypt under St. Sergius Church, a cave that had served as home to the Holy Family two thousand years ago. Tension gripped her body as she descended the thirteen worn steps down onto the marble floor below. She took each step with deliberate slowness to allow her body to absorb the holy site where the family once lived. Myth or fact.... or something in between?she mused.
Now inside the crypt, Justine continued to reflect upon the remarkable woman who had captured the imagination of the world.How did she raise her extraordinary sons? Where did Mary spend her nights? Where did Jesus sleep?She stood among the columns, her eyes sweeping over every nook and cranny looking for answers to the questions that drove her search.
The last time Justine was here, the crypt was closed because of groundwater that had seeped in after the '92 earthquake. She could now see that the crypt, just recently reopened, had at one time served as a three-aisled chapel with an altar in the front wall. Justine ran her fingers across the smooth plastered walls surrounding four marble-crowned columns and supported by a roughly hewed ceiling. Primitive lights hung from each side of the room, the cords crawling back up the stairs. Shadows painted haunting images across the walls and ceiling.Perhaps ghosts or saints watch over this holy placeshe thought. Not a religious person, nevertheless Justine could be swept up in the historical moment. In this moment. Nearly four hundred kilometers to the east of Cairo, the morning sun danced a crystalline ballet across the Gulf of Aqaba. Deep below the shimmering waters, the Arabian plate snuggled up against the African plate as it had for millennia. This morning, the earthen plates quivered—only slightly. But enough. Suppressed energy, like flexing muscles, reached the tipping point. The quiver snaked itself west across the African plate, under the Sinai landmass, beneath the Gulf of Suez, and into the eastern Sahara creating a long ribbon of rupture. The quake hit Old Cairo some 90 seconds later....
Chapter 2...there appeared an angel of the Lord to Joseph in a dream, saying, 'Rise, take the child and his
Now inside the crypt, Justine continued to reflect upon the remarkable woman who had captured the imagination of the world.How did she raise her extraordinary sons? Where did Mary spend her nights? Where did Jesus sleep?She stood among the columns, her eyes sweeping over every nook and cranny looking for answers to the questions that drove her search.
The last time Justine was here, the crypt was closed because of groundwater that had seeped in after the '92 earthquake. She could now see that the crypt, just recently reopened, had at one time served as a three-aisled chapel with an altar in the front wall. Justine ran her fingers across the smooth plastered walls surrounding four marble-crowned columns and supported by a roughly hewed ceiling. Primitive lights hung from each side of the room, the cords crawling back up the stairs. Shadows painted haunting images across the walls and ceiling.Perhaps ghosts or saints watch over this holy placeshe thought. Not a religious person, nevertheless Justine could be swept up in the historical moment. In this moment. Nearly four hundred kilometers to the east of Cairo, the morning sun danced a crystalline ballet across the Gulf of Aqaba. Deep below the shimmering waters, the Arabian plate snuggled up against the African plate as it had for millennia. This morning, the earthen plates quivered—only slightly. But enough. Suppressed energy, like flexing muscles, reached the tipping point. The quiver snaked itself west across the African plate, under the Sinai landmass, beneath the Gulf of Suez, and into the eastern Sahara creating a long ribbon of rupture. The quake hit Old Cairo some 90 seconds later....
Chapter 2...there appeared an angel of the Lord to Joseph in a dream, saying, 'Rise, take the child and his
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